Editor's Pick: Facebook Tampers With Gears of Journalism, Ex-Curators Charge

Facebook Tampers With Gears of Journalism, Ex-Curators Charge

Richard Adhikari May 11, 2016 1:54 PM PT
	Facebook hired promising journalists in their 20s and early 30s to work on its secretive trending news project but did not treat them -- or journalism -- well, according to a recent report. The curators served as training modules for Facebook's algorithm, they said. They selected trending news, and decided which news sites each chosen topic would link to. [More...]

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